Like in Ironman 2008 where the Afghani scientist builds Tony Stark an awesome suit of bullet proof armor, then suicides himself to make sure Tony can escape. Similar happenings in Terminator 2 with Dyson.
A similar trope is where a Hero convinces a guy on team badguy to switch sides after a brief conversation, can y'all think of examples of this in other stories?
Trope where a stranger instantly risks his life for the Hero
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Re: Trope where a stranger instantly risks his life for the Hero
In all fairness, he was shot earlier, and it's possible he didn't think he was getting out.OgreBattle wrote:Similar happenings in Terminator 2 with Dyson.
"Bob" takes a bullet for the main character in The Last Samurai.OgreBattle wrote:can y'all think of examples of this in other stories?
Edit: Bob probably doesn't count as a stranger by that point.
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That and Dyson was also convinced he was helping to avert the robocalypse, so I wouldn't quite put him into the same cliche zone as all the poor bastards that have died in service to someone's Marvel or Shonen Jump origin story.
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